Jnanpith & Akademi
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G Sankara Kurup was first Jnanpith Award winner 1965
Mahadevi Varma won Jnanpith for Yama in 1982
VK Gokak won Jnanpith for Kannada literature 1990
Girish Karnad won Jnanpith for Kannada drama 1998
Amrita Pritam won Jnanpith for Punjabi literature 1982
Raghuvir Chaudhary won Jnanpith for Gujarati in 2015
Sahitya Akademi Award given for outstanding Indian literature
Sahitya Akademi recognizes 24 Indian languages
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay won Jnanpith for Bengali 1966
Kedarnath Singh won Jnanpith for Hindi poetry 2013
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar won Jnanpith for Urvashi Hindi epic poem 1972
Sitakant Mahapatra won Jnanpith for Odia poetry 1993
Sahitya Akademi was established on March 12 1954 in New Delhi
Jnanpith Award was established in 1961 and first awarded in 1965
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri won Jnanpith for Malayalam poetry 2019